Who Knew?! Desert Garden Year ONE 🌱 #garden #desertlife #diy

[malicious]

As someone who has transformed a desert 5 acre home into a food forest that hardly requires outside help besides watering struggling plants. Look into chop and drop crops to increase the microbiom3 in your soil. If you can use mulch or the crops from this season as mulch, cover ALL your soil that's exposed. The sooner you do this the faster it'll become self sufficient. Trees (figs, pomegranate are good heat tolerant, low water needs)> Bushes(Goji berries have deep roots once establishedwhich makes them very drough tolerant)> Actual crop > ground cover(sweet potatoes or strawberries, alpine varieties are best) > mulch for water retention and to avoid drying of soil beneath, which will reduce watering needs severely. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Been doing this 30+ years.

[darcistephenson]

Every year is an experiment and ive been gardening in one way or another for 34 years! You did great

[Nit_Witty]

As someone whose moved 32 times in my life -- all over the US and Europe -- you grow your garden where you're planted! I've even managed a garden in the shadow of an active volcano. Your garden is lovely and will only get better!

[Addy_the_AnimalLover]

Your garden is beautiful!!! God bless sister ❤😊✝️

[BakeALegAndLetsDigIt]

Plant bush beans next year and they love being planted close together you will love them they are very prolific Live and hugs from Pennsylvania Sincerely Melody

[OverkilledUnderdog]

You are living the dream. Long may it continue ❤

[Evergreen...]

Your irrigation system is awesome, so simple but so valuable.

[robinr.]

🌷You go DearHeart…. I’m proud of you. 😊

[Jordan_Makes]

Awesome example of what’s possible! And this is just year one! Amazing.

[Texasishot]

You did awesome ❤ kisses to Akela ❤️🐾❤️🐾

[Allaboutragnar]

Fantastic job . I did have my doubts but you have played a blinder crack on with growing and you will grow. Top notch 👍👍

[brianbridgeford]

Deserts have more potential vitality than one would expect. Particularly if humans learn to work w them, as you are trying to do.
Glad you have neighbors to help you.

[Lauriloveslife]

Your garden is doing so great!! So happy for you!!!

[dog_vanlife]

Look up using copper coils and grounding your gardening. Your vegetables will grow bigger and faster.

[sapphireponies]

Its amazing how nature can just grow anywhere with just a little love and a little water ❤

[StarshineInTHEnorth]

With
Oranges? Maybe someday for you✨
Great job Linnea👍🏼

[Kath-my]

You did fantastic with your garden dear. I’d give anything to have that fence around both my big ones. I actually posted on facebook last fall. ATTENTION hunters in the King Street woods, I get a couple roasts and steaks from each of 6 deer because I FED THEM ALL SUMMER 😡‼️. The ate so much that much of my veggies were re-planted 2-3 times so come harvest I wasn’t really busy. I had enough tomatoes for 2 batches of sauce because they ate most of the flowers from them 😄. PS) I didn’t get any meat 😥 and this year, had 6 deer with 2 babies in tow

[whiterabbit]

I had a lot of luck with “trench” gardening. Dig craters or trenches and plant in those, to keep the water from running away too much, and make sure to add compost and mulch heavily. Drip lines were a lifesaver for me, and really cut down on water loss.
I grew hundreds of pounds of veggies in a tiny little southern New Mexico back yard, and the tomatoes seemed to do best if they were hardened off and in the ground before April 1st… Mid-March was even better. Indigo Rose tomatoes did VERY well for me, and the color they produced in the desert sun was PHENOMENAL!

[heidiquast]

One of the best organic gardening things I learned a couple years ago is to get a comfrey plant & make comfrey "tea" fertilizer! Comfrey is a pretty good desert plant because it sinks really deep roots. It's easy to Google it, but to make the fertilizer just put some leaves in a bucket of water, cover & let it sit outside for a couple weeks. Fair warning though, the longer it brews the worse it smells...and it gets rank!! 😂 But it's an Amazing fertilizer! But each year gardening is always a new adventure!

[lindalee]

Looks great! I love that you showed us your garden. Thank you.